Xu Fengnian left Diaoyutai and wandered around the city with the young fish Wei. He saw an alley full of people, many of them young scholars in blue shirts. When he got closer, he realized that they were playing chess, squatting, sitting and standing. At this time, Xu Fengnian remembered that in addition to Xiangguo Lane, Xiangguo Lane is famous for selling gold caves, and Yongzi Lane is also famous. In the alley, all the wild chess players with chess boxes are sitting against the wall. Bet different amounts for strong and weak players to lure skill-seeking tourists and chess idiots to take the bait. This kind of game is naturally difficult to get into the eyes of everyone in the chess world, but it can best kill the time of ordinary people and poor scholars. In addition, betting is often nothing more than a few ten pieces. A few copper coins are a small gamble.
Xu Fengnian smiled, and took a bite of the sauced beef wrapped in oil paper. He was penniless and hungry. For a while, he played chess in the alley to earn money. , winning chess is not difficult, but often there are peers who need to make a living in the place where chess is played. It is okay to be reasonable, and the well water does not violate the river water. Tu Dalong is straightforward, he has to keep a little sense of proportion to win a few pieces, otherwise the opponent will lose his helmet and armor, and he will not be willing to continue to spend money to play chess. This is a vulgar and trivial truth that Xu Fengnian was forced to realize slowly.
His Royal Highness asked Lu Yangshu and the others to stay away, leaving only Ning Emei standing behind him, pulling Yu Youwei to find a gap, and betting that the chess player is a young man who looks like a down-and-out student, with mended clothes and white shoes and socks. There are ten chess pieces on the chess board, which means that if the chess player loses, he will be given ten cents. In ordinary chess games, only two or three pieces are placed, and five pieces are not common. It can be seen that this wild chess player is quite confident. Xu Fengnian After squatting down, he was about to hesitate to pay a few pennies to place a bet. When he looked up, he saw that the chess player was blind. How should he play this game
Seemingly accustomed to this kind of situation, the blind chess player said softly: "It's okay, I'll know where the piece is when I hear the sound of the piece being dropped."
Xu Fengnian nodded and said, "I bet ten coins."
The blind chess player took out a purse from his cuff, weighed it, looked ashamed, and said softly: "Master, if I lose, I will owe you sixteen coins. If you don't mind, I have an ancestral chess book at hand. worth the amount."
Xu Fengnian smiled and said, "Okay."
Xu Fengnian doesn't care about chess records and so on. He listened to the countless chess records in Chaoting that can make famous chess players go crazy, such as "Peach Blossom Spring Game Puzzle", "South China Sea Linglong Game", "Immortal Granting Sons Puzzle", etc., can His Royal Highness give it to you? A hill is piled up, not to mention that now the chessboard has 15 vertical and 19 horizontal chessboards, and the older the chess records, the less valuable they are.
Generally speaking, the strength of Tesuji players in ancient and modern times, the latter is getting stronger and stronger after all. The blind chess player sitting cross-legged against the wall put a box of black stones under his knees, stretched out his hands slightly, and signaled Xu Fengnian to hold the white first. Although this wild chess player was dressed in shabby clothes, his demeanor should not be underestimated, and his gestures and feet showed the elegant and ancient style of a real family.
Before the official game, both sides place two pieces on the diagonal star positions, called potential pieces.
Xu Fengnian handed over the sauced beef to Yu Youwei, and took the lead in playing Sanliu. This corner was rated as the best offensive corner by the self-proclaimed top three player Huang Longshi. The young blind chess player looked calm, and he could really distinguish the position by listening to the sound.
The black and white moves of the next nine hands did not escape the ancestors' way. The father of Yuyouwei, who watched the game from the sidelines, was once a famous player in the chess world of Western Chu. When she was studying in Shangyin Academy, she was only defeated by Huang Longshi, who was known as the unparalleled combat power in the world. If he is proficient in chess theory, Green Ant, a small national player in Beiliang in Wutong Garden, would not dare to say that he is sure to win Yuyouwei. Seeing each other's ten hands, Yu Youwei was a little disappointed.
But Xu Fengnian was white and eleven, but Yu Youwei's eyes lit up. The blind chess player was also slightly stagnant, he no longer made quick moves, he thought for a while before lifting and re-moving.
There is an old saying that chess is born from a broken place, and Xu Fengnian's next few moves were all born from this broken place, which can be said to be ingenious. The blind chess player endured all the way, and finally Hei Shiba attacked first when the corner was not stable, five or six flying attacks, Yu Youwei frowned and thought deeply, there are as many as forty-four changes in this pattern.
Subconsciously looking at Xu Fengnian, he remained calm, and the speed of the move was consistent. At 43 o'clock, he pulled out lightly, and the chessboard was full of murderous intentions in an instant. Yuyouwei was terrified. This move was really too fierce. White's fifty-nine flying fillets and eighty-three points are equally aggressive, but the blind chess player's position is like a boat sailing across the sea, rickety, but he won't fall, and after black's one hundred and eighty moves, he is sure to win first. The official's good situation, Xu Fengnian surrendered very calmly.
Xu Fengnian took out another ten copper plates and said, "It's still ten coins."
The blind chess player holds the white first, this game is still Xu Fengnian who provoked the smoke early, and the blind chess player responds calmly. Yu Youwei could vaguely see the clues, Xu Fengnian was extremely attacking, but the blind chess player was not the same as most people in the world, the most important thing was the solidification of the terrain, some of the moves that seemed to be easy to do at the moment, can always echo with the middle game and even the final game, It was so consonant, if it wasn't for Xu Fengnian's unreasonable fights with endless tricks, the two sets would not have lasted more than 200 hands. At present, Xu Weixiong, who is a female talent, has changed from fifteen to nineteen, and Yilin, who has abolished the seat system, has not changed for a thousand years. From Yu Youwei's point of view, a blind chess player who is slightly better than His Royal Highness is destined to become a blockbuster. It's hard to say whether the chess players are hiding their strength, but it really is the Crouching Tiger in Hidden Dragon Lane in the market.
"Come again."
Xu Feng, who had lost two rounds in a row, said with a young smile, this time the white game starts with Shuangfeiyan, this pattern has been widely circulated, but the top national players in the past fifty years have all abandoned it in the fierce battle of the peak, Huang Long Shi Geng said that the two hands are not too tight, and the mellowness is lost, which is a death sentence for this classic layout.
Xu Fengnian simply sat on the ground, but changed to a more comfortable position. It was faster to lose a lot of troops on the chessboard. He lost three times in a row with ease. Thirty copper coins were piled up in front of the blind chess player. Xu Fengnian looked up at the sky through the eaves of Yongzi Alley, it was already dinner time, and it was rare to meet such a skilled wild chess player, so he waved Shu Shu to his side and asked her to go to the wine shop to get some food, Soon Shu Xiu brought a big food box with four pairs of bowls and chopsticks. After Yang Qingfeng tested that it was non-toxic, Shu Shu dared to put it in front of Xu Fengnian. Xu Fengnian smiled and asked, "I don't plan to leave in a while , how about you eat some too?"
The blind chess player smiled and nodded informally. Yu Youwei is a pampered and delicate woman, and she doesn't feel out of place when she sits and eats with Xu Fengnian, while Daji Ning Emei just stands up and swallows a meal with wind. When the wild chess player was eating slowly, he even took the initiative to talk to Xu Fengnian about the gains and losses of the three defeats. When it came to Xu Fengnian's mastery and strength, he did not hide his admiration. The conversation was very pleasant, Xu Fengnian smiled and asked the chess player if he studied with a famous chess player. The blind chess player shook his head and said that he had a mediocre family. He just started playing Go before he lost his sight at a young age. Yongzixiang has been playing chess for ten years, and the money he earns is only enough for food and clothing. Whenever he has spare time, he buys famous chess records, and he can't save a little money. While speaking, the blind chess player patted his head, took out a few Confucian classics from his luggage, handed them to Xu Fengnian whose buttocks could only touch the floor, and said with a light smile, "Put it on."
Xu Fengnian took the books, took out two copies and handed them to Yu Youwei, whose feet were already numb, and said with a smile, "Isn't it right? It's dishonoring the theory of saints."
The blind chess player smiled and shook his head and said, "Etiquette, righteousness, honesty and shame are not in the book."
Xu Fengnian is no longer pretentious, and eats and drinks with the wild chess player who has won him 30 points, and then the smoke on the 19th road, Xu Fengnian is tireless after repeated defeats. .
The ten rounds in Yongzi Lane were so dark, from noon to dusk to moonlight, when the dust settled, Xu Fengnian lost ten rounds in a row and paid a hundred coins. All the wild chess players in Yongzi Lane had already left. Xu Fengnian sat cross-legged on a Confucian classic, looked at the defeat on the chessboard, sighed heavily, and said, "Your hand strength is comparable to that of Xu Weixiong from Yin Xuegong." .”
The wild chess player shook his head and said: "Ordinary people play chess with only one side. I can barely have two sides. Nowadays, famous players in the chess world can take care of three sides, but Mr. Wei Xiong and Huang Sanjia play four sides alone. How dare I try to challenge the big ones?" tree. However, if you can hold a hand-to-hand conversation with Mr. Weixiong in this life, you will have no regrets in death."
Xu Fengnian helped pack the chess pieces into the box, and then got up and joked: "I don't have the state of you who can die every day after hearing about Taoism. I don't feel wronged if I lose to you. I'm willing to bet this time. Sifang has Danghu ten rounds, and we also have Yongzi ten rounds. Let’s leave it at that.”
The blind chess player smiled and said, "Let's give these books to you, Young Master."
Xu Fengnian made it clear that two of the books had been placed under Yu Youwei's buttocks for a long time, presumably wild chess players had already heard about them and knew that they were "family members" brought out by him. To avoid suspicion, it would be inappropriate to ask for them back , Xu Fengnian took out another ten Wen, and handed it to the thin chess player after getting up, jokingly said: "The last ten Wen, I should buy another two catties of courtesy, righteousness and shame from you."
The chess player hesitated for a while, but still accepted it, Wen Ya smiled and said, "Young Master, you don't lack these."
Xu Fengnian laughed and left.
The blind chess player packed his bags and stood alone in the quiet alley, facing the entrance of the alley and bowed deeply, bowing to the bottom.
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After walking out of Yongzi Alley and riding his horse back, Xu Fengnian clicked his tongue and said, "There are such powerful people in this little Yongzi Alley."
Yu Youwei frowned and asked, "Is he an assassin?"
Xu Fengnian couldn't help laughing, and put his chin on the head of the young fish in his arms, and said helplessly: "You think too much, I just feel that the wooden blind chess player's chess strength is amazing, he claims that he can only play two sides on the chessboard, he is too modest , I dare say that the second sister will lose two or three games with him in the next ten rounds, presumably he has never talked with top national players, so he doesn't know how good he is."
Yu Youwei nodded and said: "This person is good at playing chess with abandonment as winning, bending as stretching, and a wide field of vision. But it's not just limited to this. In the ninth game, he was annoyed by your unreasonable hand, so he showed that even if he is positive In gladiatorial fighting, the strength is even more extraordinary. If he is from an ordinary family and became self-taught after losing his sight, then there is no doubt that this person is a natural giant in the way of chess."
Xu Fengnian said softly: "His eyes were stabbed blind."
The young fish Wei was stunned.
Xu Fengnian said with emotion: "Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, and the bitterness behind them is not what this son is interested in."
Yu Youwei rubbed Wu Meiniang's head, and asked, "Didn't you ever think of inviting me to be your assistant?"
Xu Fengnian shook his head and said, "Being good at chess doesn't mean you'll be successful as an official. I've already lost a hundred coins, so I won't gamble anymore."
Yu Youwei smiled and said nothing, this His Royal Highness's chess skills are quite strong, it must be a loss of face after losing ten games in a row, I am sorry to have too much contact with that blind chess player.
Xu Fengnian said for no reason, "It all depends on King Jing'an Zhao Heng's gambling luck."
Xu Fengnian suddenly said with a bitter face: "It's over, I'm so bad at gambling today, one goes up and down, Zhao Heng's old turtle will probably make a lot of money."
Yu Youwei asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"
Xu Fengnian murmured a few cursing words, but remained silent.
In Yongzi Alley, the young blind chess player struggled to pack his bags, but he was exhausted with only two boxes of chess pieces and a few chess books. The chess player silently laughed at himself as a scholar who was useless. After walking a few steps, he raised a warm smile In Yongzi's ten games, he earned a full 100 Wen. In the past two years, I have not really lost a game in Yongzi Alley except deliberately showing weakness. Xiangfan local chess lovers are no longer willing to play chess by themselves, unless some Only foreign guests who come to visit Yongzi Lane will be hooked, so earning a hundred Wen a day is a rare good situation. Furthermore, that young master is extremely interesting, and his family background is naturally excellent. He is blind but not blind. Such a young master from a superior family background can play chess well. It has been difficult for me to bother to play chess these years. I was young. When I was learning chess, I was happy to win chess and even more happy to lose. Now that I have been winning chess and not losing chess, my interest in playing chess has diminished. I am afraid that one day I will really play chess just to make a living. One day I will be the way of chess A day of stopping. Thinking of his bleak life experience, the blind chess player looked cold, as if he had forgotten how to grieve.
In this world, if you are blind, it’s fine not to look.
If I could meet a few more good-hearted young men who played ten games of chess, maybe I would regret stabbing myself in the eyes back then.
Walking to the corner of the alley, the blind chess player was stopped.
A majestic voice came: "My master wants to see you."
The blind chess player said calmly, "I don't see it."
A carriage stopped not far away, and the graceful man in the carriage was holding a record of the life experience of a blind chess player. There were no less than hundreds of people on the sidelines. Even the young chess players who were in the middle of the game didn't think much about it. They just thought that luck had met the kind-hearted young master, but they didn't know that at the end of the first game, news spread to the most powerful person in Xiangfan City. In the third game, the chess record was delivered to the mansion with the lion at the door. In the fifth game, the master of the mansion had asked his servants to thoroughly investigate the identity of the blind chess player. The man was still hesitating about how to deal with it. It was not until the ninth game that he saw the true chess strength of the young blind man, and then he went out of the house with a smile and waited patiently until now, when he got the last few pages in his hand. For the trivial and scattered records of his career, he felt that he could be more patient, so when the bodyguard whispered outside the carriage that the man was missing, he was not angry at the boy's blindness. Besides, the boy was blind. .
The man burned a few pages of paper that were nothing more than a few hundred words of a paragraph about the life experience of ants, then dismounted himself, walked up to the blind chess player with a strong character, and said slowly: "Lu Xu, Haichang County, Qingzhou People, grandfather Lu You is a master scholar of the previous generation, father Lu brothers are all good, one of the three masters, majoring in classics and history, never thought of writing a few words of justice for scholars when compiling the history of Western Chu, and was framed by villains You stabbed your eyes and ruined your official career to save your life. During the past ten years, you played chess in Yongzi Lane, and went to Xiangguo Lane to play the piano for Goulan girls at night. You earned dirty money. Do you know that your enemy has become the governor of Haichang County?"
The blind chess player calmly said, "This silver is not dirty."
The middle-aged man smiled and asked, "Whether the money is dirty or not, let me ask you, do you want to show off your talents instead of trying to survive in two alleys?"
The young chess player said with a smile: "Although it is already night, Lu Xu still doesn't want to dream."
The man laughed and said: "I heard that you once said a word: I have thousands of catties of books and talents in my belly, but I only sell them to the emperor's family if I want to sell them."
The blind chess player frowned and said, "This kind of nonsense that you can't understand after a few days of reading, it can't be taken as the truth."
The man said in a deep voice, "But I want to take it seriously!"
The blind chess player smiled wryly, "Are you still refusing to let the Lu family go?"
The man with a string of rosary beads in his hand said flatly: "My name is Zhao Mingheng. The emperor's family, how can it be considered an emperor's family? Is one King Jing'an enough?!"
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In Prince Jing'an Mansion, the eldest son Zhao Xun found his father who was copying Buddhist scriptures in his study in a daze, and asked softly, "I heard that father brought a blind chess player carrying a piano back to the mansion? What's the meaning?"
King Jing'an said with a smile: "This son is the last member of the Lu family in Haichang County. If you only watch chess, no one in the family can beat him. You can take care of him. Anyway, it won't cost you much. If you just watch chess If you talk about wars on the chessboard, you should raise a dog that can't bite. If you are really talented, you can hire the staff of the palace and polish it. In the future, you will clean up Yu Hanliang, the prefect of Haichang County, in front of him. If you make suggestions again, you will be truly sincere. Scholars die for their confidants, Xun’er, you have to keep in mind this ancient saying. And how to get along with this kind of scholars, you have to put aside your heart-to-heart with Wei Wei’s gang of dudes Don't rely on your status to oppress people. Not all scholars in the world are stupid. They have the most delicate minds. They may not be able to read righteousness, but it is not difficult to read a character that cannot tell whether it is conceit or inferiority. Xun'er, My father taught you one thing, to deal with these gentry talents, you treat them as His Royal Highness Prince Jing'an, and you treat them as them."
Zhao Xun smiled and said: "I see, my father compares his heart with his heart, and he already has the Buddha's heart."
King Jing'an Zhao Heng squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "You don't need to flirt."
Zhao Xun carefully exited the study.
Zhao Heng continued to copy Buddhist scriptures with a soft brush, and after finishing the copying, he said coldly: "Lu Xu, I just want to tell you a story with you in a few days. If there is no such thing as this king, it is irrelevant to the overall situation." My bosom friend, it’s too boring.”